Trunk Tools, Beam AI, QikBIM and Higharc have unveiled their tools in quick succession, with the latter raising $95 million — a sign of a shift in BIM towards the automation of repetitive tasks.
Between 17 and 30 June 2026, four building actors announced AI platforms applied to the digital model. Trunk Tools opened the ball with Cortex, dedicated to research in the site documentation. Beam AI followed with BIM CoPilot, oriented task automation. QikBIM presented an assisted modelling platform, and Higharc closed the sequence with a residential design tool accompanied by a $95 million C series.
The common point of these four offers is not creative design but repetitive work: finding information in thousands of pages of documents, detecting conflicts between lots, generating model elements. This is the segment where the return on investment is most rapidly demonstrated, in a context of shortage of skilled labour.
Market projections place the BIM between $15.4 billion and $38 billion by 2029-2030 according to calculation methods. About 75% of architecture, engineering and construction companies report adopting AI technologies, but only 22% feel they are really ready to integrate them — a gap that explains the very pragmatic orientation of these launches.
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